Figurative Language Review

“Their stomachs felt like tubes of toothpaste that had been all squeezed out.”

~E.L. Konigsburg

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

“Some of them will drift away and figure out a game to play, like shaping shadows on the wall, or wingtip tag around the hall.”

~Brian Lies

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Personification

John is a real pig when he eats.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

The wind stood up and gave a shout.

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

Oreo: Milk's Favorite Cookie

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

“All the world’s a stage…”

~William Shakespeare

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze.

~E.L. Konigsburg

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

“Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, Then another thousand, then a second hundred, Then still another thousand, then a hundred.”

~Catullus

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Look, I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade but the game is over.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personfication

I have told you a million times not to lie!

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole